Etichetta: Durham
Durham miners’ hall applies for Unesco world heritage status
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A grand hall created for miners in 1915 and recognised as one of the finest trade union buildings in Europe is bidding for Unesco world heritage status. Redhills in Durham has been selected as one of eight workers’ as...
‘There is anger’: Durham miners’ gala returns amid cost of living crisis
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It is one of the biggest celebrations of working-class culture anywhere in the world and this year, organisers predict, it will be bigger and louder than it has been for decades. After a two-year hiatus, Durham miner...
Durham churches offer fair-bound Travellers sanctuary on their land
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The city of Durham is on traditional routes to Appleby Horse Fair, quando 10,000 Travellers from all over Europe descend on the small town in neighbouring Cumbria. Now it is the first city to offer sanctuary on church l...
From Barnard Castle to Beergate: Durham police chief at centre of national row again
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Her appointment made history as she became Durham police’s first female chief constable. But for a second time during her three-year tenure, Jo Farrell has found herself at the centre of a national row over a police i...
Ben Stokes breaks sixes record in explosive Durham century: contea di cricket - live!
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Durham police help save woman 3,000 miles away in Canada
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Control room staff helped save a woman in danger more than 3,000 miles away after she contacted the wrong Durham police force. Durham constabulary was contacted on Wednesday afternoon on its online live chat facility ...
Durham University’s largest donor pulls funding over Covid restrictions
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Durham University’s largest donor has pulled his financial support for the institution because of its Covid-19 restrictions. Hedge fund manager Mark Hillery had donated £7m over the past seven years but publicly criti...
Water firm fined £240,000 over County Durham sewage discharges
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A water company has been fined £240,000 after a damaged manhole led to two unauthorised sewage discharges into a stream. Untreated sewage leaked into Coundon Burn in Bishop Auckland, Contea di Durham, su 13 marzo 2017. UN...
Nine charged with abuse of vulnerable patients in County Durham
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Nine people have been charged with the abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital in County Durham. Six men and three women have been charged relating to alleged physical and psychological a...
Durham University failing on bullying, staff say
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One of Britain’s leading universities is failing to stamp out bullying and harassment, some of its staff have said, after a college principal was allowed to remain in post despite complaints of intimidating behaviour ...
Durham University keeps college head in post despite alleged intimidating conduct
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A leading British university has been accused of turning a blind eye to bullying after a college principal was allowed to remain in post despite complaints of intimidating behaviour towards colleagues. Prof Adekunle A...
If Dominic Cummings has proof he didn’t go to Durham twice, he could show it now
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When the Guardian and the Mirror revealed that Dominic Cummings had travelled to Durham and Barnard Castle during the first lockdown, our stories were dismissed by Downing Street as a “stream of false allegations by c...